Valve



Oct. 14, 1941.

VALVE Filed Aug. 16, 1939 IN VENTOR.

BY WzZZ'er-L. Mayne.

w. L. MAYNE 2,259,387

Patented Oct. 14, 1941 VALVE Walter L. Mayne, Fredonia, N. Y., assignor to Marsh Valve Company, Dunkirk, Y., a cor-- poration. of New York Application August 16, 1939; S'criaI No. 290,442

1- Claim.

' The present invention relates to adjustable orifice valves for use in warm water heating systems or in any other installation demanding accurat theoretical and practical adjustment of temperature values based on rate of fluid flow, and has for an object the provision of an inexpensive, compact and easily manipulated valve for such purposes.

Another object of the invention is to provide in an adjustable orifice valve a means to facilitate practical and accurate checking and adjustment of theoretical settings of such valves without increasing the size of any of the parts.

Another object of the invention is to provide a valve having a normally concealed thermom-. eter well having no communication with the fluids within the valve body but arranged for heat transmission only and therein so disposed as toprovide a most accurate check on the temperature of fluid passing therethrough.

These and other objects are attained by the means described herein and exemplified in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical cross sectional view through a valve embodying. the invention.

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view through the valve of Fig. 1 and taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional View showing a modified form of strengthening and well-closing member embodying the invention.

Fig. 4 is a view taken on line 4--4 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view showing 9. development of the orificing cylinder with a development of the orifice boundaries of the valve body superposed thereon in the relative full open position of the valve.

In various systems and apparatus the accuratecontrol of the amount of fluid passed at a given point in such system is a vital factor in the effectiveness of the system or apparatus. Where the temperature of the fluid is an important factor, as in the balancing of a warm water heating system, the accurate adjustment becomes vital and many difficulties have attended the designing and balancing of such systems. Accurate calculations of pipe sizes and radiator sizes by the warm water heating engineer cannot be put into practice because the multiplicity of thethat a system may be installed using convenient.

sizes of piping and radiator units with valves of the present invention initially set to provide the theoretically correct flow of water from thereturn ends of all radiators and a single accurate thermometer check of the system in operation.

will thereupon make it possible to easily make all necessary practical adjustments at the valve toassure perfect balance of the system.

While the invention is herein exemplified in an angle valve, it is to be understood that it is not restricted to this particular form of valve.

In general, the device of the invention comprises a valve bod-Y ID with a relatively square floworifice II that is accurately controlled as to size or efiective flow orifice area by a valve cylinder l2 which is rotatably adjusted by a valve stem I3. The bonnet portion M of the body i0 is desirably integral with the body and has on its insid wall a stop lug l5. The orificing or flow regulating valve cylinder [2 has a disc shaped top wall [6 with an angular seat I! receiving a complementary shaped end H! of stem I3 and any suitable means such as screw 19 serves to fixtli'e parts together. On the top of disc I6 is an arcuate complementary lug 20 having an end 2| which abuts lug IE to stop rotation on the cylinder in one direction when the cylinder fully closes the rectangular orifice H in the valve body. Lugs 15 and 20 limit movement of orificin'g cylinder l2 to about one thirdof a revolution between fully opened and fully closed positions. Thisis clearly shown in Fig. 5. The cylinder I2 is cut on a straight sharp edge I20 to provide full opening coinciding with orifice H in the valv body and is further cut away for a lesser distance at I200 and on a curve 12,000 around the circumference of the cylinder to provide a sharp shearing edge to follow the inside of the valve body to prevent the accumulation of sediment.

As will be hereinafter fully xplained, means are provided to .externally'indicate the size of the effective fiowlorifice at any setting of the orificing cylinder i2, and furthermore, a cooperating means is provided exteriorly of the valve to accurately adjust the limitof opening movement of the valve. The indicating means is graduated in tenths and, therefore, with a known and accurately formed orifice II in the valve and the accurately formed orificing cylinder, it

is possibl to set the valve to provide a required theoretically calculated orifice size between zero and maximum capacity of the valve. With the valves of the invention it is possible to quickly effect a theoretical balance of a warm water provision of a normally closed thermometer well disposed in the valve operating stem of each valve. It is amongst the special objects of the invention to provide an easily obtained and very ing, gland and locknut indicated at 3B, 31 and 38, respectively, are'employed to supplement the leak proof arrangement of the parts.

In the modified form of strengthening and well closing means shown in Fig. 3 a screw threaded plug 39 has a squared tapered section 49 which serves as a continuation of the taper onthe Valve stem 4| and the seat in the actuating member 42 fits over both the stem and the tapered head section 40 of said plug 39. An ordinary screw 43 passes through the handle grip or wheel member 44 for joining the parts together.

accurate temperature reading of the return fiow of warm water as it leaves each radiator unit. This is accomplished without enlarging the valve but nevertheless with greater speed and accuracy than heretofore possible, and directly within the valve whereby the corrective fractional adjustments are made, if required.

In the embodiment of the invention herein exemplified, the valve stem l3 has a bore or thermometer well 22, the wall of which is internally threaded at 23 for a distance from the open top end. The exterior top end of stem I3 is squared and tapered at 24 to provide for the seating of the complementarily shaped opening in the stern actuating member 26. It will be seen that the valve stem wall is quite thin at the top inorder to provide ample diameter for the well 22. and without increasingthe size of the'stem. A threaded member 21 is provided for removabl insertion in the threaded portion 23 in order to strengthen the stem wall and also to close the thermometer well. In the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 1, the screw 2'! also serves to secure the valve stem operating member 26 and the handle grip 28 to the stem l3. The handle'grip 28 is suitably recessed in its lower face to frictionally receive the .top portion ofstem operating member 26. Th member 26 has a dependingfinger 29 with a pointer 30 which rides over indicator ring plate 3| that is fixed on top of bonnet portion l4.

As the cylinder l2, stem l3 and operating member 26 move as a unit relative to the orifice l lin the valve body and the plate 3| on the body, the position of the cylinder is indicated by said-pointer Siland ring plate 3! at any instant in terms of area of efiective orifice opening. For example, if the rectangular orifice II has an area'oi 1 square inch and the cylinder is moved by the stem tothe sixth graduation away from the shut or closed position, then the effective opening Will be six tenths of 1 square inch: The means for establishing this or any other selected opening as the permanent full open position of the valve comprises a stop ring 32seated over the plate3l and having a lug 33 to stop movement of finger 29. The stop ring encircles the neck ofthe valve body and is adjusted to non-rotatable selected positions with respect to the graduations on the dial plate 3| by seating it. on the base of the neck 35-. The stop ring 32 maybe raised and adjusted to a 2 different position when desired by first unscrew- The rotary valve is desirably made of noncorrosive metals and is unlikely to stick or bind because of the sharp edges I20, I200 and l2,000. In the hands of experienced installing workmen, the closing plug or screw may be removed without removing the handle grip or stem operating means and the necessary fine adjustments may be made by such workmen while the strengthening member is removed.

When the fully adjusted and assembled valves are used by building occupants as ordinary shut off valves to control individual radiator units, the thermometer wells are closed and concealed and the stems are reinforced for routine hard usage by the closing means.

It is to-be understood that the handle grip pieces 28' and 44 are formed of a suitable material of low heat conductivity and that the invention herein is not limited to devices in which such parts are included since the actuating means as a whole may be modified according todesired design and construction within the spirit of the invention and the scope of th appended claim.

What is claimed is:

In combination a valve body having an inlet opening and a relatively rectangular outlet orifice, an exteriorly threaded hollow neck at the top of said body, a rotary orifice control member in the body having its top spaced below the bottom of the neck and having. a stem receiving opening in its top, a hollow thin-walled stem including a short, solidbottom endportion of reduced cross-section secured in the opening in the top of the said control member for turning said control member, said hollow thin-walled, stem extending upwardl through and above said neck and having reduced cross-section at the top exterior portion thereof, a dial plate fixed on the valve body at the base of the neck, a stop ring adjustably seating in non-rotatable relation on the dial plate at the base of the neck, an externally knurled lock ring threadedly carried by the neck for releasably retaining the stop ring against movement from its seating position, a stem actuator having an opening shaped to seat on thereduced exterior top portion of said valve stem, and further having a depending indicator finger shiftable over the dial plate as the stem is turned by said actuator, a handle grip seating on said actuator, the valve stembeing of uniform inside diameter to receive a thermometer substantially to the top of the orifice control member, the interior of the valve stem being in non-communicating relation with the interior of the'valve bodyand its neck, a screw threadedly entering the open top of the: valve stem to secure the grip a'nd'actuator to the stem, and stem packing means including a packin'g'nut seated over the threaded neck at its upper partand permitting independent operation of the locking ring.

WALTER L. MAYNE. 

